Gyaneshwari -Sant Gyaneshwar
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Chapter-2
Sankhya and Yoga
37. Slain, you will attain heaven; victorious, you will enjoy the earth. Therefore, stand up, O Arjuna, resolved to fight. If you lay down your life fighting in the battle, you will enjoy the peaceful pleasures of heaven (216-220). Now don’t brood too much over this matter, O Arjuna. Stand up with the bow in your hand and fight with valour. When a person performs his duty, all his faults become dissolved. How did you come to be deluded that you will incur sin by performing your duty? Tell me, will a person who crosses a river in a boat get drowned? Will a person walking straight on a highway stumble? But he who does not know how to walk properly will miss his footing. If a person drinks milk mixed with poison, he will surely die; likewise a person incurs sin if he does his duty with the motive of gain. Therefore, if you perform your duty as a warrior and fight disinterestedly, then it is not sinful (221-225). 38. Hold alike pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, and get ready for battle; then you will not incur sin. A person should not be elated by pleasure or depressed by pain, nor should he mind gain or loss. He should not feel anxious about victory in war or about loss of his life on the battlefield. While discharging his duty, he should bear patiently what falls to his lot. When his mind attains to this state, he does not incur sin. So you must carry on the fight without anxiety.
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